Donald Trump On Succession

2010-11-29T14:40:25Z

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Leona Helmsley: Cruela or Cinderella?

2010-11-29T15:41:48Z

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Getting a home loan with lousy credit

2010-11-29T15:36:38Z

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Floor plans that make your high rise stand higher than the rest of the crowd

2010-10-13T20:20:29Z

Is your dream home etched in your mind? Are you just waiting for the perfect time to bring it to reality? Explore the New York luxurious Schermerhorn high-rise "Come be a part of something different".

Enjoy the retreat of roomy apartment floor plans as they are vital means to see in your mind's eye the house in scale for wannabe home owners. In the gung ho real estate market, listings with floor plans draw significantly more interest. Making your high-rise your dream home can be as eas...

Union Hall

2010-09-09T21:37:57Z

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How To Pick A Real Estate Agent

2010-10-25T14:28:12Z

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6 Ways That Looking for Real Estate is Like Looking for Love

2010-11-02T13:18:15Z

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Recession stalls construction in New York City

2010-06-15T09:13:05Z

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 500 construction projects in New York City have stalled during the recession, the majority of them in the borough of Brooklyn, according to a report released on Thursday.

Work had halted on 515 construction sites as of November 29, the bulk of which w...

Listed: Meticulous Arts And Crafts Replica

2010-10-22T07:47:14Z

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Summer walking tours

2010-10-26T21:28:12Z

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Is Williamsburg’s Boom a Bust? Ward Dennis with Williams Cole

2010-11-03T09:07:50Z

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First-Quarter Home Sales In Brooklyn, Queens, NY, Tumble

2010-10-23T22:44:45Z

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The Afternoon Wrap: Wednesday

2010-06-16T10:28:25Z

Representative Engle pipes up for Citigroup-Mets deal. [AP via Crain's]

The real estate vanguard and their secretive salon. [TRD]

One-of-a-kind consultancy adds oomph to the close. [TRD]

Will recession's reasonable real estate bring FiDi to life? [NY1]

Renderings for Red Hook megamall: red and blocky! [Ra...

On Tomorrow...

2010-06-16T10:29:17Z

8 a.m., the Association of Real Estate Women presents a breakfast seminar, “Finding Yourself in a Tough Climate,” with leading real estate author (The Skinny on the Housing Crisis) and investor Jim Randel as guest speaker. Members, $15; non-members, $20. Offices of Herman Miller, 1177 Avenue of the Americas. Register online.

Noon, the

Building Stories: Full Court Press

2010-06-16T11:05:47Z

Sixteen Court Street, that soaring wedding cake of a building that pierces the sky above downtown Brooklyn, was built in 1928—the cusp of an economic catastrophe against which all future recessions would be measured. Like those who made that ambitious investment in the borough of Kings, SL Green could not have known what lay in store when it bought the trophy in August 2007.

It looked like an easy turnarou...

The Afternoon Wrap: Friday

2010-06-16T10:34:53Z

Park Slope named the nation’s seventh-dreamiest nabe. [Brownstoner]

Times rejiggers real estate maps, the masses object. [Curbed]

Architect billings index at record low—could that be the bottom? [Archpaper]

The Great Rezoning of Brighton Beach commences. [Brook...

Bloomberg: Rezone Flatbush, Build Green, Disband LMDC

2010-10-27T14:29:24Z

Mayor Bloomberg, according to his prepared remarks (PDF) for his annual State of the City this afternoon, is calling for a laundry list of government initiatives meant to bolster the local economy and create jobs.

Among the steps the mayor plans to highlight are a rezoning of the Flatbush neighborhood in Brooklyn home sales dropped 42.7 percent annually in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to a new report from Prudential Douglas Elliman and appraisal firm Miller Samuel (and authored by ace

Meanwhile, in Outer-Borough Housing...

2010-06-15T09:04:49Z

As Manhattan housing rightfully snags the spotlight today, here's a snapshot of what's happening in Brooklyn and Queens, courtesy of the Daily News:

Brooklyn home sales in the last four years dropped 52.7 percent, from 12,089 to 5,716. In the last year alone, sales fell 37.5 percent Queens home sales dropped 48.4 percent in four years, from 17,962 to ...

The Local: Condo Buyers Beg Off

2010-06-15T10:08:38Z

When New York’s real estate market was at its peak, condo buyers and investors were not in the position to quibble if the ceiling of their new apartment was a few inches shorter than the one in the sponsor’s offering plan or if common charges were a couple hundred dollars more than expected. Now that the market is in the throes of a recession, those same buyers are finding themselves with the upper hand for the first time in decades.

One buyer who agreed to pay...

The Afternoon Wrap: Tuesday

2010-06-11T15:42:05Z

Outtakes from the World Trade Center site. [Curbed]

Latest Case-Shiller Index shows 16.6 percent annual decline in the third quarter in home prices nationwide. [NY Times]

New York's luxury housing market and year-end compensation: Eyeing each other from acr...

Philly Housing: Sales Down, Prices Still Absurd

2010-06-16T10:31:45Z

Philadelphia home sales tumbled 25 percent annually in the spring, according to a new report from Wharton economist Kevin Gillen (hat tip: Matrix).

Meanwhile, the median house price there was roughly $109,000 by the end of June. In Manhattan, it was $1,025,000 (for condos and co-ops), according to Williamsburg and Greenpoint that The New York Times rightfully called “the last major hurdle to the city’s most ambitious redevelopment effort in decades.” The city designed the rezon...

Buy Now? No, Buy Later

2010-06-15T09:49:40Z

Welcome to the buyer's market: Supply is up, demand is down, and prices are teetering. Brokers say buy now – after all, there are deals to be had! But what if you waited?

Here’s four areas (and one borough) where buyers would be fools to rush in now.

1. MANHATTAN In Manhattan, prices are falling. But several gauges indicate that, in the months ahead, they'll fall even further.

For one, new devel...

The Brooklyn Bright Spot

2010-10-27T14:27:43Z

First, the entirely expected bad news for real estate developers and brokers: The Brooklyn condo market is slipping. According to the third-quarter Brooklyn market report from appraisal firm Miller Samuel, condo sales in the borough dropped from 979 in the third quarter of 2007 to 660 in the same period this year, and the median sales pric...

The Afternoon Wrap: Monday

2010-08-25T13:27:20Z

The Freedom Tower quietly sticks its head above ground. [City Room]

Preservation groups battle NYU over the fate of the Provincetown Playhouse along Macdougal Street. [City Room]

Study shows that a single foreclosure in a neighborhood may not lower property values, but that &#8...

Brooklyn Home Sales Plummet

2010-06-15T09:53:16Z

Brooklyn home sales plummeted 38.2 percent annually in the third quarter to 2,298, according to a new report from brokerage Prudential Douglas Elliman and appraisal firm Miller Samuel. Condo sales dropped especially sharply year over ye...

House Price Declines Continue

2010-10-21T09:08:16Z

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$783,000

2010-06-15T09:55:19Z

That was the average New York City home sales price in the third quarter, according to a new report from the Real Estate Board of New York. That's down from the last two quarters but up slightly from the same period in 2007.

Some other findings in the citywide survey:

The average condo sales price citywide was $1.26 million in the third quarter, up 15 percent annually....

Buy or rent?

2010-10-26T10:45:21Z

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The Ghost Condos of McCarren Park

2010-06-15T09:55:52Z

Behind the sagging wire fence, all that's left of 55 Eckford Street in Greenpoint is a skeleton, its steel ribs turned rusty from months of rain. A tangle of weeds has shot up amongst the bottles and soggy cardboard covering the ground, and blue construction tarp flaps in the autumn wind. The place smells faintly of urine.

Is this the future of McCarren Park's shiny new...

Construction junction

2010-10-26T10:45:13Z

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Forest City Enterprise, Inc. F2Q08 (Qtr End 07/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript

2010-10-21T09:04:45Z

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Forest City Enterprise, Inc. F2Q08 (Qtr End 07/3108) Earnings Call Transcript

2010-10-21T09:04:44Z

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Lax Underwriting , Foreclosures, and Credit Crunch Stimulate Misery Industries

2010-10-21T09:03:31Z

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Et Tu, Queens? Home Sales There Plunge, Just Like Manhattan, Brooklyn

2010-06-16T10:56:15Z

Home sales in Queens plunged annually from the spring of 2007, according to a new report, joining Brooklyn and Manhattan in steep year-over-year sales slides.

Queens home sales were down 23.7 percent from the second quarter of 2007 through the second quarter of 2008, to 2,363, according to the report out this week from appraisal firm Brooklyn's home sales are happening in South Brooklyn, a slice of the city much less traveled by Manhattanites than the increasingly mirror-image neighborhoods further north.

In the first half of 2008, over 53 percent of Brooklyn home sales closed in South Brooklyn, according to a report (PDF) from appraisal firm Manhattan and Brooklyn housing prices in the second quarter of 2008, according to reports from Miller Samuel and Douglas Elliman.

Average sales price

Manhattan: $1,669,729 Brooklyn: $588,441

Report: Brooklyn Awash in New Retail

2010-09-10T19:29:11Z

There's a lot of new shops in the Borough of Kings. Developers are expected to add 500,000 square feet of retail space to Brooklyn in 2007, according to a report from investment-sales firm Marcus & Millichap. That's way more than the 33,000 feet added in 2006.

Other highlights from the report:

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After the Housing Bust

2010-10-23T02:45:29Z

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Apartments 2007

2010-10-26T10:04:17Z

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Affordable Housing: A Community United?

2010-11-03T09:07:07Z

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Winter Weather Garbage

2011-01-03T17:30:53Z

After a Christmas weekend blizzard that dumped 20 inches of snow on New York City, garbage collects in piles on the sidewalk outside Flatbush Gardens apartments in Brooklyn on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. Sanitation workers began to pick up garbage Monday for the first time since the blizzard struck. (AP Photo/Bebeto Ma...

Travel Trip Winter in Backcountry

2011-01-03T08:32:39Z

This Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010 shows Donna Lawlor of the Brooklyn borough of New York as she snowshoes through the pine forests of Hancock County, Maine. The solitude, quiet and frozen cold of a winter la...

Imperfect Storm

2011-01-01T14:30:48Z

FILE - In this Dec. 28, 2010 file photo, a street in the Sunset Park section of the Brooklyn neighborhood of New York remains unplowed two days after snow fell across every corner of the city. The city has cleaned up from big storms before with ease, but this blizzard became unlike anything New Yorkers had seen in decades. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Angelo Annunziata, 58, complains about the still unplowed snow in front of his house on 62nd Street and 23rd Avenue in Brooklyn, N.Y., Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Chris Hawley)

APTOPIX Winter Weather

2010-12-29T07:01:25Z

A Sanitation Dept. plow truck is stuck on West 16th St. in the Coney Island neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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